Items with tag “drought”

August 16, 2012, 5:12PM

It's time for a drought update, to be more precise, an update on a few plants in my home garden and at Birmingham Botanical Gardens that weathered the brutal hot and dry weather we had earlier this summer. Specifically, I'll confine my comments to those plants that came through without supplemental irrigation or injury. These were all planted "in... Full story »

July 31, 2012, 3:29PM

November 13, 2011, 9:07AM

FAIRHOPE, Alabama -- Tony Holmes has been in the pecan industry for 38 years, and he’s never seen the market act like this. Droughts across the Southwest — primarily in Louisiana and Texas, where the crop is most prevalent — coupled with increasing demand for the fruit from Asian markets have driven the pecan to record prices. Full story »

August 07, 2011, 4:45AM

A collection of Press-Register reader Sound Off calls from Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011, with callers expressing opinions on everything from a pleasant experience getting children registered for school, to the weather. Full story »

July 08, 2011, 4:45AM

A collection of Press-Register reader Sound Off calls from Friday, July, 8, 2011, with callers expressing opinions on everything from the need for benches at bus stops, to the Casey Anthony case. Full story »

May 21, 2011, 8:40AM

December 12, 2010, 11:10AM

Farmer Aries Haygood grabbed the top of a freshly planted onion and gave it a gentle pull. The green plant sprang from the ground with little resistance, a sign its roots weren't grabbing hold because the powdery soil is too dry. Full story »

October 28, 2010, 9:35AM

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- The National Weather Service says a La Nina pattern developing in the equatorial Pacific, will bring drier and warmer than normal conditions to Alabama through February. Full story »

October 15, 2010, 2:24PM

In Huntsville, which the U.S. Drought Monitor classifies as being under "moderate drought," rainfall is nearly 13 inches below normal for the year, said Chelly Amin, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Huntsville. Full story »

October 12, 2010, 9:00AM

Friends sell bracelets to remember Montgomery teenager killed in wreck after Auburn football game, dry weather is sending more allergy sufferers to the doctor, school bus sex harassment suspect and boy who allegedly egged him on are no longer in school and more news from across central and southern Alabama. Full story »